See Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review Magazines for endless articles by Dr. Vetrano & Dr. Tasca Haag! NOTE: This article is copyrighted and can only be reproduced by first contacting [email protected]. Setting The T.e. Fry Record Straight Itelll #1 GENUINE FRUIT ARIANISM: The Ecological, Sociable, Satisfying Diet Subtitled to Set "The T.e. Fry All-Fruit Mentality" Straight ... " Eat You r Fru it - but Eat Your Veggies, Nuts & Seeds, Too!" (Transcript Booklet to The Audio Tape) Written by & In Gratitude to ... Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano & Edited by... Victoria BidWell GetWell*StayWell, America! is pleased to bring some vegetables, which are not fruits. A great misdeed is done you this lecture by the renowned Dr. Vivian when the word "fruitarian" is used erroneously to fit some Virginia Vetrano on this most urgent and vital particular hypothesis about human nutrition. I disapprove of subject. For years, many disparaging remarks the misuse of the word "fruitarian" because it leads people have been disseminated about the protein ad­ down a dangerous path to a deficiency of protein. equacy of a pure vegetarian diet. So that you Unfortunately, most individuals are easily misled will not be led astray, listen carefully. You will because they think fruits are only those that have a sugar content and that are produced by trees; whereas, many foods find all these false claims refuted. And now, sit we casually call "vegetables" are actually classified botani­ back and relax; and enjoy this gem of a tape cally as "fruits;" and nuts and seeds are also classified as containing a wealth of knowledge on Genuine "fruits." The error in these individual's ideals and ideas, has Fruitarianism. caused much weakness, sickness, and suffering. Superlative Health can be maintained on a diet of fruits only, providing nuts and seeds, which are fruits, are "Genuine Fruitarianism" - Defined included. However, most individuals do better by the A common pitfall of those who have chosen "Nature's addition of raw, leafy vegetables to the fruit and nut diet. Way" is to eat "only fruit" and no nuts or seeds. They have There is no denying that fresh fruits and vegetables contain been advised by some "authority on Nature" against the nutritionally adequate proteins. However, a diet, composed use of nuts or seeds. However, the fact that we instinctively chiefly of those fruits that have a high-sugar, low-protein eat nuts and some seeds, just as we eat anything that in its content, does not supply proteins in adequate quantities for natural, raw state, looks, smells, and tastes good, in the "as most people's needs. Most people can't eat enough of these is" condition would seem to mean that these items should foods to supply their protein needs. The proteins in fruits are be in our diet. Nuts, and seeds, when fresh, are some of the of good quality, but the quantities contained therein are most delicious and satisfying foods. They are packed full inadequate to maintain nitrogen balance in most cases. We of bone-building minerals and proteins, and like other need nuts and seeds which contain proteins in higher concen­ fruits, are truly GOD'S demonstration of love to humans presented through nature. It would be a genuine sensory, trations to supply our bodily needs. Our CREATOR endowed mental, and physiological deprivation to avoid the fruits. us with an elaborate digestive system, capable of secreting The practice and philosophy of "fruitarians" abstain­ large quantities and all types of protein-digesting enzymes, ing from every food except sugary fruits is incongruent with because these are needed for the digestion of protein foods. the correct definition of "Genuine Fruitarianism," as I am Therefore, the addition of nuts and seeds to the fruit and defining it herein. The advocates of "the all fruit diet" imply vegetable diet makes the diet "genuinely fruitarian" and that "fruitarianism" means "eating exclusively of fruits." will prevent the development of a primary protein defi­ "Genuine Fruitarianism" is most properly defined as ""eating ciency and the diseases which flow from the deficiency. chiefly of fruits." Botanically, nuts and seeds are also fruits The onefindingfrom experimental research and, therefore, belong in the diet of the fruitarian, as well as that stands out most is that for most nutrients, the * 1 * Please click on www.Health4TheBiliions.org for our 1,000 Natural Hygiene titles! See Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review Magazines for endless articles by Dr. Vetrano & Dr. Tasca Haag! amount needed for any individual varies greatly. the lining membrane of the intestinal tract, many symptoms Each individual is unique, has his/her own metabolic and frequently relate to digestion and the digestive tract. Toxic biochemical differences; and the amounts of proteins, vita­ products of indigestion are absorbed and can cause problems mins, and minerals needed, are quite different. So great are the elsewhere in the body, in addition to the protein deficient differences in requirements of protein from individual to syndrome. Both protein deficiency and starvation diminish individual, and under the varying circumstances of life, that the rate of cell division of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal some who eat only fruits, and no nuts or seeds, develop a tract, which, in health is obligatorily renewed about every protein deficiency after a year or less, on this diet; yet others three days. Besides the impairment of digestion, there is less may continue for several years before showing a protein mucous to protect the stomach and intestines from the fermen­ deficiency. A great emotional problem or illness, or other tative products of bacterial decomposition and the acidic great life stress, may cause a prior, subclinical deficiency to gastric juice. Ulcers are very likely to form; and when they do, quickly and abruptly surface. Because of the great variability they heal very slowly because the rate of cell division is very in protein requirements of individuals, the Recommended slow. Daily Allowance (RDA) of protein is set at30% over the daily When excess fruit is eaten, all of it can't be properly consumption which is necessarily allowed. Most Hygienists, digested or absorbed; consequently, it ferments in the diges­ with cleaner systems, better digestion from proper food com­ tive tract. This is "the green light" for bacteria! If food is not bining, on an all raw or mostl y uncooked diet, should not need digested, it lingers in the digestive tract; and the bacteria are a 30% excess of high protein foods because of their increased forced to do their duty, which is to decompose organic matter digestive and assimilative capacities. wherever it is found. So they decompose it in the gastrointes­ Pitfalls of "The All-Fruit Diet" tinal tract just like in a warm, wet garbage pail, forming the various highly toxic alcohols that irritate the lining of the -or- stomach and intestines. Thus, in conjunction with other wrong Symptoms of Chronic Protein Deficiency ways of living, overeating on fruits can lead to Inflammation, Those neophyte Health Seekers on "only fruit" who The 4th Stage of Disease, and eventually Ulceration, The 5th develop protein deficient symptoms usually also develop an Stage. Some of these highly toxic, alcoholic products are array of other symptoms not directly attributable to a dietary absorbed and cause problems elsewhere in the body, thereby deficiency of proteins. The symptoms of protein deficiency masking and compounding the protein deficient syndrome. are mingled with symptoms of toxicity, caused by excessive The poor results which I have seen in people who fruit eating and from other wrong ways of living not yet cast have tried eating only fruit for prolonged periods of time off. They have an unrecognized protein hunger that keeps strengthen my view that The Ideal Diet for health-minded them ravenous and gorging on fruit all day long yet never persons must contain nuts and seeds, as well as fruits and some feeling satisfied even after a large meal. These individuals vegetables - especially the leafy greens. These are the foods don't know what is going wrong. Here they are feeling worse to which we are constitutionally adapted. In other words, and worse when they thought they were eating a health-giving these are the foods that GOD designed us to eat, provided by diet! Under these conditions, any disease can be developed, nature and in a natural state. according to the individual's diathesis. ("Diathesis" means The early symptoms of an excessively low protein "inborn tendencies" or "genetic predisposition.") diet are functional in nature and are often missed by the When protein is lacking and fruit is eaten in excess, layman. The body's ability to make the best out of a detrimen­ nutrition is poor. Metabolic processes are impaired because tal situation, by using the body's reserves of protein and nutrition is impaired. All the functions of the body become calories, masks the nutritional deficit for quite some time impaired, including digestion and the elimination of meta­ before cellular and then anatomical degeneration occurs. A bolic wastes. As these body wastes (metabolites) caused by protein-calorie deficit may not manifest for years, because the poor elimination increase, they add to the wastes absorbed body slows down its metabolism and learns to live on less needed nutrients. Additionally, the individual lacks energy, from the intestinal tract. The excessive fruit eating continues and of necessity, slows down his/her activities. Therefore, the because of a driving hunger, thereby increasing the toxic decreased metabolism and diminished activities permit the wastes absorbed from the gut. Then organs begin to function conservation of all nutrients. This is a definite and purposeful less efficiently. Digestion becomes more impaired, and inter­ conservative effort of the organism, aimed at the prevention nal secretions are inadequate.